Physics and Chance
Subtitle: Philosophical Issues in the Foundations of Statistical Mechanics
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: September 29, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 453
ISBN-13: 9780521558815
Subjects: Philosophy of science; Social & political philosophy; Theoretical methods; Physics; Philosophy; General; Philosophy & Social Aspects; Philosophy / General; Philosophy-General; Science / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Science-Physics; Statistics
First sentence: There are four fundamental theories that constitute, at present, the foundational pillars of our physical theory of the world: general relativity, quantum mechanics, the theory of elementary particles, and statistical mechanics.